Repairs to Crashed Civic

Our Car of the Day is a 2006 Honda Civic with damage to the bumper, fender, door and quarter panel. We replaced the bumper and fender plus some interior parts and we repaired the dents on the door and quarter panel. Finally we refinished the damaged areas with original factory paint.

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Dent on 1995 Thunderbird

A 1995 Ford Thunderbird is our Car of the Day. It was hit from an odd angle that caused a dent at the top corner of the quarter panel. The customer replaced the taillight himself before bringing the car to us (he wanted to have brake lights!) We repaired the dent, aligned the quarter panel and trunk and repainted with factory matched paint.

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Good Quality vs Poor Quality Body Repairs

Today's Car of the Day highlights the differences between good and bad quality materials and workmanship. The quarter panel on this 2004 Toyota Highlander was repaired at another shop using poor quality paint and a sub-standard repair process. The newer paint in the repair area failed much earlier than the old paint on the rest of the vehicle. In addition, body filler was applied too thick over an improperly prepared surface. The result is body filler that is cracking and pulling away from the panel. Water is getting inside the cracks and forming rust. We cleaned out the old body filler and rust, re-did the dent repair and repainted. Almost Everything uses great materials and experienced technicians. We stand by our work with a written warranty that is the best in the industry.

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Acura Collision Repair

Today's Car of the Day is an Acura RL that was hit on the side. Farmer's Insurance paid to have the exterior door panel replaced and factory paint applied to the door and blended onto the adjacent panels. Of course we removed all of the chrome, weatherstrips, mouldings and lights to prevent paint from getting on them.

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Bumper Scraped in Minor Collision

The Car of the Day is a 2013 Infiniti G37x Sedan with bumper that got scraped in a minor collsion. We took the bumper apart, repaired the scrapes and repainted it with original factory paint.

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Almost Everything Wins 2016 Best Body Shop Award

Almost Everything is very proud to announce that San Francisco Bay Area residents have chosen us as the Best Body Shop for 2016.

The San Francisco A List is the annual Bay Area contest that tallies nominations and results of tens of thousands of votes over a 6 week period to determine the best places to shop, dine and get services. 121 winners competed with thousands of other nominees to be named the BEST of San Francisco Bay Area.

Past sponsors of the contest have included ABC7, the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate and CityVoter.com.

Almost Everything General Manager Frank Barnard, says, "Thanks to our loyal customers. We loving doing business with you and really appreciated your votes. I also want to thank each of our employees. They earned the award with their hard work, skill and dedication."

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Fixing the Work of Scam Artists

Don't be embarrassed if this happened to you. Once a week we see a car that has been "fixed" by a scam artist. He approachs people and offers to repair damage on the spot for a reasonable price. He may hammer, apply fillers and paint. When he's done he explains that you just need to let things dry then everything will be perfect. He may even offer to come back to finish the job. You won't see him again and you will have no way to contact him. These guys create more damage than they started with. Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu that has been attacked by one of these scam artists. As you can see in the photos below, he didn't fix anything but he made the car uglier and in need of more repairs.

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Collision Repair on 2001 Toyota Avalon

A dented door and broken door handle make for a pretty tough driving experience. Having to crawl from the passenger seat to the driver's seat gets old the very first time you have to do it. Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2001 Toyota Avalon. We replaced the damaged door, mirror and door handle and blended new factory paint onto the fender and rear door so that everything matched.

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